Last updated 15/09/19 11:10:00

Outside Temperature

Barometer

Wind Direction

Wind Speed

Gust Speed

Humidity

Latitude:

56° 27.42' N

Longitude:

003° 00.96' W

Altitude:

30 meters

Station uptime:

26 days, 14 hours, 8 minutes

Server uptime:

26 days, 14 hours, 8 minutes

West End Weather, Dundee

The original Dundee West End Weatherstation was established in 2002 using a Davis Vantage Pro and collected weather data reliably (mostly) until early 2017 when it was updated with a new Davis Vantage Pro2.

The old weather site was managed by Davis Weatherlink software running on a low energy PC and Windows XP. This new site is running off a Raspberry PI and the excellent open source weewx software with the Bootstrap skin. The Bootstrap skin allows the site to work nicely on most devices, but also includes dials for current conditions.

You can see an alternative view of the weather data. This view is less friendly to mobile devices but includes additional information such as an Almanac.

Who runs the Weather Station?

Geoff Barton established and maintains the
weatherstation. He has
a day job as
well... The Dundee weatherstation has received some
press attention over the years and data from it have been
used in several local research projects about renewable
energy.

A highlight in 2013 was a 3 minute feature on the BBC2
Programme Landward following an interview with
BBC weather
presenter
Judith Ralston .
Some
still photos from that day give an idea of what was
involved!

Technical stuff about the website from the author of the bootstrap skin

This website summarises weather data logged by a weather station using the polished and highly customisable
Weewx software (version 3.9.1). Weewx downloads a data record from the
weatherstation every 5 minutes and stores it in an archive database.
It also creates all the graphs and webpages which are uploaded to the website every 5 minutes.

This website uses a custom skin which uses Bootstrap to deal with most
of the layout and presentation. The gauges and the history tables are generated by Python scripts which hook
into Weewx.

The easiest way to install this skin is to download the source archive from GitHub:
releases, and use the Weewx installer
to unpack it:

setup.py --extension --install [wherever you've put the archive]

Set the page title and footer through the [BootstrapLabels] section in
skins/Bootstrap/skin.conf. Change the template language using the [Language] section in
skins/Bootstrap/skin.conf and skins/Images/skin.conf